Thomas A. Langford - "Palm Sunday 1975" (March 23, 1975)
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(church organ light music) | 0:03 | |
(church organ music fading) | 1:06 | |
- | Oh God, we realize this day | 1:18 |
that Your earth is a wondrous place made of wind, | 1:24 | |
rain, flower, rock, fire, and us, | 1:28 | |
and that we are called to build the earth. | 1:35 | |
If we do not build the earth, who will build it? | 1:39 | |
If we are not God's people, who will be? | 1:44 | |
We can do it, only as we love one another. | 1:49 | |
Give us grace, oh God, to love one another. | 1:55 | |
For Christ's sake. | 2:01 | |
(church choir singing) | 2:08 | |
Blessed is a king who comes in the name of the Lord. | 3:30 | |
(congregation responding indistinctly) | 3:36 | |
(church organ light music) | 3:39 | |
(church organ light music) | 4:23 | |
(church choir singing) | ||
Often we do not love each other. | 9:51 | |
We do not love ourselves. | 9:57 | |
We do not love God. | 10:00 | |
And yet, if we are not God's people, who will be? | 10:05 | |
As we confess our sin, | 10:12 | |
let us seek to be God's people for this day. | 10:16 | |
Let us pray. | 10:22 | |
Almighty God, | 10:25 | |
- | Whose son Jesus Christ | 10:27 |
has revealed the nature of our sin | 10:29 | |
by his perfect righteousness. | 10:31 | |
We gathered today under the judgment of his words, | 10:34 | |
we are lost sheep, lost coins, lost children. | 10:38 | |
We are salt without savor, light hidden under a bushel, | 10:44 | |
11 out of touch with the lump. | 10:50 | |
We are forgiven debtors | 10:53 | |
who are reluctant to show forgiveness. | 10:55 | |
Children who will not play unless we can call the tune. | 10:59 | |
We have built our house upon the sand. | 11:03 | |
We have answered yes and acted no. | 11:07 | |
We have prayed within ourselves in isolation and pride. | 11:11 | |
We stand today under the judgment of Jesus' life. | 11:16 | |
We have lived without a baptism into all sorts | 11:21 | |
and conditions of humanity. | 11:24 | |
We have run away from the hour of testing in the wilderness. | 11:27 | |
We have avoided the cries of hungry people | 11:32 | |
and shirt the responsibility of teaching and healing. | 11:35 | |
We have evaded the necessity of sacrifice. | 11:40 | |
We have sought to bypass the cross. | 11:44 | |
And above all, | 11:47 | |
we have failed to live in newness of life | 11:48 | |
with the risen Christ. | 11:51 | |
Oh God, as you have called us into the church of your son, | 11:54 | |
we recall with shame that we have forsaken | 12:00 | |
the assembling of ourselves together in love, | 12:03 | |
that we have been guilty of divisions. | 12:07 | |
We have heard the preaching of the word without obedience, | 12:10 | |
that we have broken bread without discerning the Lord's body | 12:14 | |
and have weakened the fellowship through hardness of heart, | 12:19 | |
through failure of imagination and through pride. | 12:23 | |
Accept us, oh Lord, | 12:28 | |
and deliver us from all our sins | 12:30 | |
through your son, Jesus Christ. | 12:33 | |
(audience coughs) | 12:41 | |
Who will bring the new earth to us? | 12:57 | |
Who will fill our aching lives? | 13:01 | |
In our hearts, there is a desert, | 13:05 | |
and across its wastes, the wind does blow. | 13:08 | |
Oh God of us all, forgive. | 13:13 | |
Receive us again. | 13:17 | |
Into the dust of our lives pour the rain of your spirit, | 13:20 | |
so that we might live again. | 13:25 | |
Amen. | 13:31 | |
(church organ light music) | 13:38 | |
(choir singing in unison) | 14:04 | |
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- | Let us pray together, the collect. | 17:17 |
Oh God, this day we remember Jesus glorious entrance | 17:26 | |
into the city where he was to die. | 17:31 | |
Give us grace to take up our cross and follow him | 17:35 | |
in the strength of patients and in constancy of faith. | 17:40 | |
And grant us such fellowship with him in his suffering, | 17:46 | |
that we may know the secret of his strength and peace. | 17:51 | |
We pray in his spirit. | 17:55 | |
Amen. | 17:58 | |
- | The Old Testament lesson is from the book of Zechariah. | 18:04 |
The 9th chapter, the 9th through the 12th verse. | 18:12 | |
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. | 18:19 | |
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem. | 18:23 | |
Low, your King comes to you, | 18:27 | |
triumphant and victorious is he. | 18:30 | |
Humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass. | 18:34 | |
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, | 18:41 | |
and the warhorse from Jerusalem, | 18:45 | |
and the battle bow shall be cut off. | 18:48 | |
And he shall command peace to the nations. | 18:51 | |
His dominion shall be from sea to sea, | 18:54 | |
and from the river to the ends of the earth. | 18:58 | |
As for you also, | 19:02 | |
because of the blood of my covenant with you, | 19:05 | |
I will set your captives free from the waterless kit. | 19:08 | |
Return to your stronghold oh prisoners of hope. | 19:13 | |
Today, I declared that I will restore to you double. | 19:18 | |
Let us stand for the reading of the gospel. | 19:24 | |
Reading from the book of Matthew, the 21st chapter, | 19:33 | |
the first nine verses. | 19:37 | |
And when they drew near to Jerusalem, | 19:41 | |
and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, | 19:43 | |
then Jesus sent two disciples saying to them, | 19:47 | |
"Go into the village, opposite you. | 19:51 | |
And immediately you will find an ass tied | 19:54 | |
and the coat with her, | 19:57 | |
untie them and bring them to me. | 20:00 | |
If anyone says anything to you, | 20:03 | |
you shall say the Lord has need of them. | 20:06 | |
And he will send them immediately. | 20:10 | |
This took place to fulfill | 20:13 | |
what was spoken by the prophet saying, | 20:15 | |
'Tell the daughter of Zion. | 20:18 | |
Behold, your king is coming to you, | 20:21 | |
humble and mounted on an ass | 20:24 | |
and on a colt the foal of an ass.'" | 20:27 | |
The disciples went and did as Jesus directed them. | 20:30 | |
They brought the ass and the colt | 20:35 | |
and put their garments on them. | 20:37 | |
And he sat there on. | 20:40 | |
Most of the crowds, spread their garments on the road. | 20:43 | |
And others cut branches from the trees | 20:47 | |
and spread them on the road. | 20:49 | |
And the crowds that went before him | 20:52 | |
and that followed him, shouted, | 20:54 | |
"Hosanna to the son of David. | 20:57 | |
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. | 21:00 | |
Hosanna in the highest." | 21:04 | |
Here ended the reading of the gospel lesson. | 21:08 | |
(church organ light music) | 21:13 | |
(church organ light music) | 21:22 | |
(choir singing in unison) | ||
Let us affirm our faith. | 22:00 | |
- | We are not alone. We live in God's world. | 22:03 |
We believe in God, who has created and is creating. | 22:08 | |
Who has come into true man, Jesus. | 22:13 | |
Reconcile and make new. | 22:17 | |
Who works in us and others by his spirit. | 22:20 | |
We trust him. | 22:24 | |
He calls us to be his church. | 22:26 | |
To celebrate his presence. | 22:29 | |
To love and serve others. | 22:32 | |
To seek justice and resist evil. | 22:34 | |
To proclaim Jesus, crucified, and risen. | 22:38 | |
Our judge and our hope. | 22:42 | |
In life, in death. | 22:45 | |
In life beyond death, God is with us. | 22:47 | |
We are not alone. | 22:52 | |
Thanks be to God. | 22:54 | |
- | The Lord be with you. | 22:57 |
(congregation responding indistinctly) | 22:59 | |
Let us pray. | 23:01 | |
Oh eternal and ever present God, | 23:14 | |
you have sent your son, our savior, Jesus Christ, | 23:18 | |
into the world to bring wholeness and meaning to life. | 23:22 | |
To show us true life as we might know it. | 23:27 | |
And oh God as we recall this holy day, | 23:33 | |
the pads he walked and the way he lived, | 23:36 | |
help us even to walk in his way. | 23:41 | |
Help us, oh God, to walk in his humility, | 23:45 | |
so that we make, we too may live among our neighbors, | 23:50 | |
as those who serve. | 23:53 | |
In his forgiveness, so that we too may forgive, | 23:56 | |
as we long to be forgiven. | 24:03 | |
Help us to walk, oh God, in his courage, | 24:07 | |
so that nothing may ever move us from the way we are to go. | 24:11 | |
In his endurance, so that nothing may overcome us | 24:16 | |
or keep us from our true calling as persons. | 24:20 | |
In his loyalty, so that nothing may ever keep us | 24:26 | |
from true obedience to you, oh God. | 24:31 | |
Help us to share the life our Lord once lived on earth, | 24:40 | |
so that we may also know and share the life he gives | 24:48 | |
in his risen power. | 24:53 | |
Grant, oh God, that it may be our meat and drink | 24:57 | |
to do the will of our father, who is in heaven. | 25:00 | |
Grant unto us to take up whatever cross is laid upon us | 25:06 | |
and willingly and faithfully to bear it. | 25:10 | |
Grant oh God that as we share the cross of Christ, | 25:15 | |
so may we also know and share his victory. | 25:20 | |
As we share his death, so may we also share his life. | 25:26 | |
And now, oh God, come to us on this holy day, | 25:34 | |
as we rejoice and celebrate and speak and sing our hosannas, | 25:41 | |
receive us, renew us, empower us. | 25:47 | |
May this be a day of remembrance and recommitment | 25:55 | |
to love and serve as Christ has loved and serve. | 25:58 | |
Hear these words, oh God, in your mercy. | 26:06 | |
And hear the words which our Lord has taught us to pray, | 26:11 | |
as we pray our Father, | 26:14 | |
All | Who art in heaven, | 26:18 |
hallowed be thy Name, | 26:20 | |
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, | 26:22 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 26:26 | |
Give us this day our daily bread. | 26:29 | |
And forgive us our trespasses, | 26:32 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 26:35 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 26:39 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 26:41 | |
For thine is the kingdom, | 26:44 | |
and the power, and the glory forever. | 26:46 | |
Amen. | 26:51 | |
- | We come this day to the beginning of the most holy | 26:55 |
and sacred week of the Christian year, | 27:00 | |
Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Good Friday, and Easter. | 27:07 | |
May I remind you of the services which you will find listed | 27:15 | |
in the bulletin for this day. | 27:20 | |
Each day, there will be communion observed in the chapel | 27:23 | |
at 8:00 and 5:15, 8:00 AM and 5:15 PM. | 27:27 | |
5:15 rather than 5:00 as you find it listed there. | 27:33 | |
On Maundy Thursday at 7:30, | 27:38 | |
we will observe the Maundy Thursday | 27:41 | |
sacrament of the Lord's supper. | 27:43 | |
Doctor Bob Osborne will be preaching | 27:45 | |
and the choir will be leading us in music. | 27:47 | |
At noon on Good Friday, a special service in the chapel. | 27:50 | |
You're invited not only to that service, | 27:56 | |
but to remain for prayer and meditation | 27:57 | |
from 1:00 until 3:00. | 27:59 | |
At 7:30 on Friday evening, | 28:02 | |
the White Rock Baptist Church choir | 28:05 | |
will share with us the seven last words of Jesus. | 28:09 | |
And then on Easter morning at 7:00 in the gardens, | 28:14 | |
we will observe our Easter sunrise service. | 28:19 | |
And at 9:00 and 11:00 in this chapel, | 28:23 | |
two identical services of worship, | 28:27 | |
when we celebrate the glorious resurrection of our Lord. | 28:30 | |
And then at 7:00 on Easter evening, | 28:35 | |
the choir and the North Carolina Symphony, | 28:39 | |
under the direction of Mister Ben Smith | 28:42 | |
will share with us the powerful and meaningful message | 28:45 | |
of Easter in box B minor Mass. | 28:49 | |
I remind you of these and encourage you to participate | 28:53 | |
as you find time and opportunity for each of these, | 28:58 | |
I think will add special meaning | 29:01 | |
to holy week for you and all of us. | 29:03 | |
It is our privilege on this holy day | 29:07 | |
to have as our preacher for the day, | 29:11 | |
a man loved, respected, and appreciated, | 29:14 | |
not only by the university community, | 29:18 | |
but by the wider community in and around Durham, | 29:20 | |
and by the community at large, | 29:23 | |
as well as the church at large. | 29:25 | |
The dean of the Divinity School here, | 29:29 | |
Doctor Thomas A Langford. | 29:31 | |
- | The name of the Father, | 29:46 |
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. | 29:48 | |
Amen. | 29:52 | |
Tell ye the daughter of Zion, | 29:59 | |
behold, thy King cometh unto thee, | 30:03 | |
meek, and sitting upon an ass. | 30:08 | |
Shortly after his entrance, perhaps the next day, | 30:16 | |
Jesus broods over the city, | 30:23 | |
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, | 30:28 | |
thou that killest the prophets, | 30:33 | |
and stonest them that cometh unto thee, | 30:37 | |
how often would I have gathered thy children together, | 30:43 | |
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, | 30:50 | |
and ye would not. | 30:57 | |
Palm Sunday. | 31:04 | |
What a strange conglomeration this day leads to. | 31:08 | |
Paradox and irony. | 31:15 | |
Insight and blindness. | 31:18 | |
Acceptance and rejection. | 31:23 | |
Now he comes, | 31:31 | |
a peasant who is recognized as a king, | 31:35 | |
or is it a king who acts like a peasant. | 31:41 | |
And the crowd prances, | 31:48 | |
and sways, | 31:52 | |
and shouts, | 31:54 | |
and looks, | 31:57 | |
in frenzy caused by festival exuberance. | 32:00 | |
The courage of numbers and a pounding hope. | 32:05 | |
The crowd shouts, "Hosanna," | 32:10 | |
blessed as you comes in the name of the Lord. | 32:13 | |
And with these actions and these words, | 32:18 | |
there is a jumble of ironic contradictions | 32:23 | |
of truth and untruth, | 32:30 | |
of confusion and understanding. | 32:33 | |
Here he comes, | 32:41 | |
the people strain and yell and look. | 32:45 | |
And they see a king | 32:51 | |
who is not the king they think they see | 32:55 | |
for he comes as a servant. | 33:00 | |
They see power, which is not that power for which they hoped | 33:06 | |
for it is expressed in weakness. | 33:14 | |
They see an anointing, | 33:19 | |
which anointing is of a tight they least suspected. | 33:24 | |
An anointing for death. | 33:31 | |
What a strange conglomeration of insight and blindness? | 33:37 | |
What a strange combination of acceptance and rejection? | 33:42 | |
So Jesus enters Jerusalem, that holy unholy city. | 33:50 | |
He goes to a temple where worship masks impiety, | 33:58 | |
and speaks of a destruction which is a rebuilding. | 34:07 | |
He observes a woman who in giving little gives much, | 34:15 | |
and challenges the faithful because of their unfaithfulness. | 34:22 | |
Acceptance, rejection, | 34:30 | |
is all summed up in that entrance and in the poignant cry, | 34:34 | |
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, | 34:42 | |
and stonest them that are sent unto thee, | 34:49 | |
how often would I have taken thy children, | 34:53 | |
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, | 35:00 | |
and ye would not. | 35:07 | |
Edwin McNeill Poteat. | 35:11 | |
They plucked their palm branches | 35:16 | |
and hail him king early on Sunday. | 35:18 | |
They spread out their garments, | 35:24 | |
"Hosannas," they saying early on Sunday, | 35:26 | |
but where is the noise of their hurrying feet? | 35:32 | |
The crown they would offer, the scepter, the seat, | 35:37 | |
that king wonders hungry forgot in the street | 35:44 | |
early on Monday, | 35:51 | |
and ye would not. | 35:58 | |
How much intensity is in those plaintive words. | 36:03 | |
From Jesus side, | 36:10 | |
there is reaching and straining and hoping love. | 36:13 | |
And from the people, there is tentative response, | 36:19 | |
then bracing back and flighty rejection, | 36:24 | |
ye would not. | 36:33 | |
This is a descriptive phrase of pained love. | 36:38 | |
It sounds so final. | 36:44 | |
It states a fact, which should not be a fact, | 36:48 | |
but it does describe the situation up to this moment, | 36:56 | |
ye would not. | 37:01 | |
But there is another moment, | 37:04 | |
when once again there'll be another effort | 37:07 | |
and a new prospect. | 37:11 | |
There will be another moment. | 37:15 | |
The consummate servant act, is supremely kingly act. | 37:18 | |
Under the roughly painted sign, king of the Jews, | 37:27 | |
which notice incorrectly correctly represents | 37:34 | |
what is taking place. | 37:40 | |
There will be another act of a wounded healer, | 37:43 | |
of a sacrificed savior, | 37:48 | |
who offers salvation | 37:52 | |
to those who are willing to give up the question | 37:54 | |
of their self-preservation. | 37:56 | |
So the ultimate paradoxical event | 38:00 | |
of death and resurrection is upon us, | 38:03 | |
and ye would not, | 38:11 | |
is transformed into a question, | 38:14 | |
will ye not? | 38:20 | |
With prime intensity, | 38:23 | |
like the focus of a laser beam, | 38:27 | |
this question is the one which comes to us from Holy Week. | 38:31 | |
Can you see the truth in the misperceived truth? | 38:39 | |
Can you see a king who is not a king, | 38:44 | |
but who at the most profound level is the only true king? | 38:49 | |
Can you see the wounded healer, wounded indeed unto death, | 38:55 | |
and healer, indeed, | 39:02 | |
who overcomes every form of death | 39:07 | |
with resurrection life and hope? | 39:12 | |
Can you also hear, | 39:21 | |
ye would not. | 39:27 | |
A phrase descriptive of all of us Jerusalemites, | 39:32 | |
but which is also an inviting question, | 39:39 | |
will ye not? | 39:45 | |
I do not think that one can write off | 39:53 | |
the reception on Palm Sunday, | 39:56 | |
as it stands in contrast to the shortly | 40:00 | |
to be uttered cry for the release of Barabbas | 40:05 | |
or the crucifixion of Jesus. | 40:10 | |
One cannot write off this acceptance | 40:13 | |
as insincerity are simply hypocrisy. | 40:17 | |
It just is not as simple as that. | 40:24 | |
It is not the case that as the people cried, "King," | 40:30 | |
they did not mean what they said, | 40:36 | |
it was rather that they did not know | 40:40 | |
all that they could mean by what they said. | 40:44 | |
It was not that they did not sealy welcome Jesus, | 40:51 | |
but they could not welcome him thoroughly. | 40:58 | |
Both the demand and the prospects were too much. | 41:03 | |
For those in Jerusalem, the situation was ambiguous. | 41:10 | |
They killed prophets, | 41:16 | |
but they also remember them with a certain appreciation. | 41:20 | |
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah had been among them, | 41:26 | |
and there were others too. | 41:34 | |
They had not immediately in heeded | 41:38 | |
the prophets in junctions, | 41:40 | |
but in retrospect, | 41:43 | |
some had remembered and preserved their messages. | 41:45 | |
The trouble with the people in Jerusalem | 41:52 | |
was that they could not look honestly at themselves. | 41:57 | |
They hid their need behind a mask of righteousness. | 42:04 | |
They disguised their blindness with cosmetics. | 42:14 | |
They hid their rejection of profound truth | 42:22 | |
behind the affirmation of shallow truth. | 42:27 | |
They covered injustice with a show of legal rectitude. | 42:34 | |
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often? | 42:43 | |
And ye would not. | 42:52 | |
But we also are Jerusalemites. | 42:56 | |
We live in the same condition | 43:02 | |
and perhaps we need to hear the same enjoining plea. | 43:06 | |
O Jerusalem, O earth, | 43:15 | |
scarred, torn, and maimed. | 43:20 | |
In the name of righteousness, people tear people apart. | 43:26 | |
We talk a peace, and there is no peace. | 43:33 | |
So today, this day, | 43:40 | |
in Cambodia, and Vietnam, and the middle east, | 43:45 | |
there is war, | 43:55 | |
and destruction, | 43:58 | |
and pain. | 44:02 | |
Today, once again this year, | 44:07 | |
on this day as we sit in chapel, | 44:11 | |
brother is against brother, | 44:14 | |
and peace is rejected in the name of peace, | 44:18 | |
hallowed good is transformed into hellish evil. | 44:23 | |
And perhaps in the midst of the concavity, | 44:28 | |
some hear that pained cry. | 44:33 | |
How often would I have taken you into myself? | 44:38 | |
But ye would not. | 44:44 | |
And the circle tightens, | 44:48 | |
O Jerusalem, O America, | 44:52 | |
we placard our motto, in God We trust. | 44:57 | |
We identify ourselves with righteousness. | 45:03 | |
We are a religious people. | 45:08 | |
One vast, holy unholy, Jerusalem. | 45:11 | |
We're not always insincere. | 45:17 | |
It's not that we do not mean what we say. | 45:20 | |
Rather, we do not realize all that we can mean | 45:26 | |
by what we say. | 45:32 | |
And in the name of truth, which is true. | 45:37 | |
We put off truths, which is truer, | 45:44 | |
integrity, justice, simple honesty, concern for others. | 45:50 | |
These are the paths to deeper truth, | 46:01 | |
but we live in contradictions, | 46:05 | |
justice, injustice, | 46:09 | |
plenty, poverty, | 46:13 | |
equality, racism, sexism. | 46:17 | |
How often would I've taken you under myself? | 46:24 | |
But ye would not. | 46:31 | |
Now once more, the call is in your name and my name, | 46:34 | |
O Jerusalem, O my people. | 46:41 | |
This is Palm Sunday. | 46:47 | |
We are here in chapel. | 46:50 | |
We've come to stand in the triumphal possession, | 46:54 | |
to sing Hosanna, | 47:01 | |
to add our voice to the welcome of a king. | 47:05 | |
And how is it with us? | 47:11 | |
The positive affirmations are meant, | 47:15 | |
but do they mean all that they can mean? | 47:19 | |
Can we take an honest look at ourselves? | 47:25 | |
Good and evil, | 47:30 | |
caring and insensitive, | 47:34 | |
reaching out and self-protect. | 47:39 | |
Sometimes we use God's name to prevent God's presence. | 47:46 | |
And occasionally we hear, | 47:54 | |
as Jesus says, how often would I have taken you unto myself? | 47:57 | |
But ye would not. | 48:05 | |
I've wondered about those words of Jesus, "How often." | 48:11 | |
And I think in the this utterance, | 48:16 | |
we have a summation of the gracious action of God. | 48:21 | |
How often reflects the dead fast tenacious love of God, | 48:29 | |
for a while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. | 48:39 | |
Hear in his love, not that we loved God, | 48:46 | |
but that he loved us. | 48:52 | |
Love beareth all things, | 48:56 | |
believeth all things, | 48:59 | |
hopeth all things, | 49:02 | |
endureth all things, | 49:05 | |
love never fails. | 49:06 | |
How often would I have taken you unto myself? | 49:12 | |
But this is the gospel for in spite of the description, | 49:20 | |
ye would not, | 49:25 | |
Jesus continues to ask, will ye not? | 49:27 | |
So it's Palm Sunday, here he comes. | 49:37 | |
There are crown and crosses, | 49:42 | |
sacrifice and sustenance, | 49:47 | |
all gathered together in a single presence. | 49:50 | |
How great is the suffering of grace | 49:55 | |
we can only dimly perceive? | 49:58 | |
How thorough the forgiveness, | 50:02 | |
how patient the love we can only begin to know, | 50:04 | |
but we can begin to know. | 50:08 | |
And to be captured by this reality | 50:11 | |
is to begin to understand the meaning of Holy Week. | 50:15 | |
And it is to begin to bring meaningful order | 50:20 | |
out of our conflicted and contradicted lives. | 50:25 | |
Once again, he comes riding on a donkey, | 50:32 | |
riding to Jerusalem, | 50:34 | |
and then to a hill across and an empty tomb. | 50:36 | |
His carrying is all brought together. | 50:44 | |
And Isaac Watts describes it, | 50:48 | |
see from his head, his hands, his feet, | 50:51 | |
sorrow and love flow mingle down, | 50:57 | |
did as such love and sorrow meet | 51:01 | |
or thorns compose so which a crown. | 51:05 | |
His love and grief beyond degree. | 51:10 | |
The Lord of glory dies for man | 51:14 | |
but low what sudden joy we see. | 51:19 | |
Jesus the dead, revives again. | 51:24 | |
How often, | 51:32 | |
how often would I have taken you? | 51:36 | |
How often would I have gathered your children together? | 51:40 | |
And ye will ye? | 51:47 | |
Palm Sunday. | 51:54 | |
Here he comes. | 51:58 | |
Ride on ride on in majesty. | 52:01 | |
In lowly pump, ride on to die. | 52:05 | |
By all thy meek head to mortal pain, | 52:12 | |
then take oh God by power and reign on then. | 52:17 | |
(church organ light music) | 52:32 | |
(choir singing in unison) | 53:15 | |
(church organ light music) | ||
(church organ light music continues) | 56:42 | |
(choir singing "Hossana") | 58:00 | |
(church organ light music) | 58:04 | |
(choir singing in unison) | 58:10 | |
(church organ light music) | ||
(church organ light music continues) | 1:01:04 | |
(choir singing in unison) | 1:01:36 | |
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- | Oh God, from whom we receive all, | 1:02:21 |
and upon whom we are always dependent, | 1:02:24 | |
except this offering of ourselves to you | 1:02:28 | |
in the service of others. | 1:02:30 | |
Use we pray thee, | 1:02:33 | |
our being and our doing, | 1:02:35 | |
our gifts and our lives, | 1:02:38 | |
for your glory and the good of your creation. | 1:02:41 | |
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 1:02:46 | |
Amen. | 1:02:49 | |
(church organ light music) | 1:02:52 | |
(choir singing in unison) | 1:03:22 | |
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The Lord bless you and keep you. | 1:06:33 | |
The Lord make his face to shine upon you | 1:06:38 | |
and be gracious to you. | 1:06:41 | |
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, | 1:06:45 | |
and give you peace. | 1:06:51 | |
(choir singing in unison) | 1:06:56 | |
(bell dinging) | 1:07:20 | |
(church organ light music) | 1:07:33 | |
(congregation applauding) | 1:11:32 |